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demography of

China

...Island form a separate group whose dialects are related to the Tai and Austronesian languages. They share with the Miao people a district in the southern part of the island. A significant number of Koreans are concentrated in an autonomous prefecture in eastern Jilin along the North Korean border.

Heilongjiang

Korean immigration started in the mid-19th century. After the Japanese annexed their country in 1910, a large number of Koreans emigrated to Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, where they converted large areas of swampy wasteland into rice paddies. They live mostly in southeastern Heilongjiang, where many autonomous Korean villages have been established. The Hui live and work mostly in the larger...

Jilin

Han (Chinese) predominate throughout the province, except in the Yianbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture that is contiguous with North Korea and has a large population of ethnic Koreans. Most of the Manchu (Man) live in the central part of the province, in the vicinity of Jilin and Siping municipalities; in addition, the Yitong Man Autonomous County was established in 1988 some 45 miles (70 km)...

Liaoning

...in its distribution. There are two autonomous counties representing the Mongolian minority nationality. One is centred on the coal town of Fuxin, and the other is in the southwest at Kazuo. A small Korean minority is located near the Korean frontier.

Yanji

...and the administrative seat of Yanbian Chaoxianzu (Korean) Autonomous Prefecture, which covers a mountainous area on the North Korean–Chinese border, more than half of whose inhabitants are of Korean ancestry.

Japan

...that can exist in multiracial societies, since the Japanese regard themselves as belonging to a single ethnic group. The few exceptions include those classified as resident aliens (particularly Koreans) and Japanese citizens of Ainu and, to a much lesser degree, Okinawan origin. Japan also has a small population of Chinese descent.

...of the Ōsaka-Kōbe metropolitan area—like the Kansai region in general—is the most ethnically diverse of Japan. Included are the country’s largest concentrations of ethnic Koreans, most of whom are the Japan-born descendants of Koreans who migrated to Japan during the period (1910–45) when Korea was a Japanese colony and who are classed as resident aliens;...

Kazakstan

...official language, functions widely alongside Kazakh, which is the state language. Other ethnic groups in Kazakhstan include Uzbeks, Uighurs, and Tajiks, along with Ukrainians, Germans, Tatars, and Koreans.

North Korea

The Korean peninsula is one of the most ethnically homogeneous regions in the world. The North Korean population, which has been largely isolated since 1945, is almost entirely Korean; a tiny number of Chinese constitute the only other significant ethnic group. All Koreans speak the Korean language, whose relationship to other languages is disputed; it may be related to Japanese or languages of...

South Korea

The Korean people originally may have had links with the people of Central Asia, the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, Mongolia, and the coastal areas of the Yellow Sea. Tools of Paleolithic type and other artifacts found in Sokch’ang, near Kongju, are quite similar to those of the Lake Baikal and Mongolian areas. The population of South Korea is highly homogeneous; almost the entire population is...

racial discrimination in Japan

In the post-World War II era, discrimination against Koreans, one of the largest minorities in contemporary Japan, has been a major issue of racism. Ethnic Koreans are forced to choose between giving up various resources available only to Japanese citizens so that they can maintain their Korean identities and giving up recognition of their Korean identity in order to receive Japanese...

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